Did a couple rough sketches of the Security Officer and a Fighter's face in my free time. Officer's left foot looks a little broken/perspectively off, but I'll fix that in a more finished piece.

I have a couple of other projects goin' on at the moment, but my brother and I are planning on collaborating for a Marathon pitch-package/lookbook full of redesigns of the original character/enemy roster, along with other things including the ships and weapons and all that. Will keep you guys posted as that progresses!

Yeah, we're thinking of having a heavy influence from mech designers like Makoto Kobayashi, which look like they shouldn't work in any practical sense, as they're so weird and organic, but still technical and believable. Image below is an example of his stuff.

As far as its proportions are concerned though, there's stuff I like about both M1 and M2's approaches, so I thought to combine the two! The M2 Juggs are definitely less organic looking, but I'd love for the Pfhor to have a totally alien and bizarre visual language with technology that looks incomprehensible and unfamiliar, something the series couldn't quite explore because of graphical limitations and all that.

Kinda! Always loved Mullins' Marathon illustrations, they're so good! Wanted to keep the influence of the Officer's sprite intact, but make it more on the bulky and practical side, with plenty of holsters and pouches for his weapons and ammunition, so a bit of a modern military influence too.

I think having two side-arm holsters on his front vest for the Magnum and Fusion Pistol works, with the TOZT clipping on to the backpack napalm unit. I figure the assault rifle would be carried with a strap that fits around the torso. As for the SPNKR though, I'm toying with the idea of making it smaller, slimmer and less cumbersome, so it can feasibly fit onto a back holster of some kind without looking too crowded and top-heavy. That would take care of all the weapons aside from the Shotgun and Flechette, which could possibly fit into thigh-holsters perhaps.

Heya guys, thought I'd upload a few more recent sketches; my marathon project is still being planned, so it hasn't been abandoned or anything. Work and other projects have been taking up most of my time, but I do want to make this a legit effort, in hopes of showing the whole thing to Bungie somehow. Click for much larger versions.

Here's the officer design with another stab at the Pfhor fighter. Trying to land on a visual language for their armor and technologies. Organic, but technical, without going too 'Giger-esque'.

And an additional take on the officer.

and lastly, a shot at the Leonardo. Based very much on an early concept piece by J. Reginald Dujour, but with some of my own modifications and perspective corrections.

My personal thoughts on the Pfhor fighter: I liked the earlier body/armor you did of him. The previous armor looked almost like it was growing off of the fighter's body, and I liked the bulging back and chest. The new "thin", straight-spined version looks a little too plain and human. And five stars for avoiding "Giger-esque" visuals; I've seen so many video game alien designs inspired by "Alien" that I've got Giger-fatigue.

My personal thoughts on the Pfhor fighter: I liked the earlier body/armor you did of him. The previous armor looked almost like it was growing off of the fighter's body, and I liked the bulging back and chest. The new "thin", straight-spined version looks a little too plain and human. And five stars for avoiding "Giger-esque" visuals; I've seen so many video game alien designs inspired by "Alien" that I've got Giger-fatigue.

Thanks! Yeah, in future incarnations I'll be putting the heavy backpack tankard back on; it helps balance it out a bit. The purpose of this sketch was to get a little more specific with armor shapes (I do like the shoulders on this one). They'll likely be a little more hunched too, not as straight-standing.

General-RADIX wrote:Very nice!

Any reason the atmosphere tank(?) from the previous Fighter sketch was removed?

Thanks as always! No reason really, just exploring different armor styles. I'll probably mix and match elements I like at some point to form a more finalized version.

Did one other attempt at the Marathon itself. I think the jets being so big (according to the scale of Deimos) makes more sense than G-4 Sunbathing station being so relatively large. It was in construction for decades, so I think it's not outside the realm of speculative possibility. (thinking about man-made stuff like the Large Hadron Collider being so unfathomably large).